Will GTA VI have an online mode?
Last updated: 2026-08-13
The short answer
Nothing has been announced. The official page says not a word about an online mode: it covers the date, platforms, editions, characters and trailers.
That applies to all of it at once: whether there will be an online mode, whether it ships with the game or later, what happens to GTA Online from GTA V, whether purchases carry over. There are no official answers to any of these.
What can be relied on
Only the pattern from before:
- GTA Online launched two weeks after GTA V, in October 2013, and ran for eleven years.
- Red Dead Online arrived almost two months after RDR 2, in beta first.
So Rockstar has a habit of separating online from the single-player game and launching it afterwards. But a habit is not a promise: the scope and the gaps differed each time.
Why to be careful with other people’s dates
Plenty of confident numbers circulate about GTA VI online. We do not repeat them: any date right now is guesswork, and guesswork in a confident tone differs from lying only by intent.
The moment Rockstar says anything about online, it will appear here with a link to the source.
What we will do with online when it arrives
Our findings mechanic does not depend on the mode: a secret or a stranger encounter is described by region, time of day and conditions either way. When online arrives, it simply becomes another platform in confirmations, and findings reproducible only there will say so.